I would just like to say that I am moved, deeply moved, by the extraordinary piece of art unveiled to us today at Chicken Smoothie. It is nothing less than a truly momentous occasion and I feel that we as a community need to come together to celebrate, and to meditate upon, the artistic conversation that has been opened with us. This art is nothing more than pixels, and yet, these pixels come together in an explosion of form and line that capture the mind and force new perspectives on the world around us. This work makes the incorporeal corporeal: it grasps the light of our computer screen: it occupies the realm between the world of imagination and the world of reality, tracing the shape that lies in our imagination to bridge that gap and to negotiate the territory between the celestial and terrestrial planes, walking the very lines it tames into the shape of our imagination. The gyratingly emotive lines speak to us of loss, and hope, the elevation and celebration of the banal, and the influxes of modernity, and the isolation of the individual, as well as globalisation and the slow warming of the earth in the womb of pop culture. Don't be fooled by the gentle colours: this is a shockingly honest work, brutal in it's exposure. It is a study of spatial relationships. It is a study of modern day idols. It is a study of
humanity.All I can say is:

Thank you Nick.